A union representing nearly 12,000 academic student employees throughout the UC system filed an unfair labor practice charge against the University of California Friday afternoon, more than six weeks after union members at UC Berkeley filed 63 grievances and a formal information request over a campus benefits decentralization policy.

A trustee from the United Auto Workers Local 2865 – a union which represents graduate student instructors, readers and tutors systemwide – filed the charge with California’s Public Employment Relations Board on behalf of the union, alleging that the university made unilateral changes to its commitment to fund fee remissions and health benefits for union members, failed to meet over a campus benefits decentralization plan and violated the union’s collective bargaining agreement.

UC spokesperson Steve Montiel declined to comment on the charge.

Specifically, the unfair labor practice charge addresses multiple information requests that union members submitted to the Labor Relations division of the campus Human Resources Office Feb. 28, over a campus benefits decentralization policy that was implemented April 1.

“From February 28, 2011 and continuing to this date the employer has refused to provide the information requested despite multiple requests made to the employer,” the charge states.

According to the charge, the union submitted information requests on Feb. 28, April 12 and April 19.

Though the union members and campus labor relations representatives previously had difficulty choosing a mutually agreeable time and neutral location to meet to discuss the grievances filed over the policy, they are slated to meet May 6 in Sproul Hall.